A Teacher's Guide to Working with Paraeducators and Other Classroom Aides

by Betty Y Ashbaker, Jill Morgan, Betty Y. Ashbaker

Book Overview

Paraeducators, also known as teacher aides, teaching assistants, and instructional assistants-are playing an increasingly important role in schools. Most teachers, however, have never been trained to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087120505X
• ISBN13: 9780871205056
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An invaluable guide to utilizing paraeducators

Paraeducator is a term covering teacher aides, teaching assistants, and instructional assists. These play an increasingly important role in classroom instruction. A Teacher's Guide To Working With Paraeducators And Other Classroom Aides is an invaluable guide to utilizing paraeducators and provides the classroom instructor with information on establishing and maintaining productive working relationships with their aids and assistants, including the assignment of responsibilities, communication, monitor the quality of work, provision of on-the-job training, and the creation of a feedback loop. The text is enhanced with tops from practicing teachers explaining ways to find the time to effectively supervise paraeducators, how the supervisory techniques involved with paraeducators are similar to (and differ from) those that teachers use with students. A Teacher's Guide To Working With Paraeducators And Other Classroom Aides is an effective, indispensable, and highly recommended reference and resource for the teacher wanting to create a successful and effective instructional classroom team.